Fernando Orellana

Dying and birthing for generations upon generation, always arriving at a question, we hurtle through space and time, helplessly out of control. Approaching the future at an ever-increasing pace and plugged into one another ingenuously, we perpetually dismantle and assemble each other. Along the way encountering irregular moments of nirvana, keeping us interested and entertained.

Orellana has been reviewed in a variety of publications and catalogs including: An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan: Strangest Thing, A Touch of Code, Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Digital by Design, EMERGENTES, Art in America, Art Review, Slashdot, We-Make Money-Not-Art, MAKE: Technology on your Time, Wired Online, and CNN. He is the recipient of the 2014 Vilcek Foundation dARTboard award and the 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Digital/Electronic Arts.

Fernando Orellana received a Master of Fine Art degree from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Fine Art degree with honors at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was born in El Salvador, San Salvador.

EDUCATION:

Master of Fine Art - The Ohio State University, 2004

Bachelor of Fine Art with Honors - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor - Union College July 2005 – present

• Developed a cross-disciplinary Digital Arts program between the Visual Arts and Computer Science Dept.

• Created curriculum for various courses within the program covering 3D Computer Modeling, Digital Imaging, Time Art, Video Art, Web Design, Computational Art, and Physical Computing.

• Instructing courses within the program.

Project Assistant - Ann Hamilton Studio September 2004 - July 2005

• Project assistant, consultation, and fabrication on various aspects of design and production.

Established in 1991, Carrie Haddad Gallery represents mid-career and emerging artists of the Hudson Valley and beyond working in painting, sculpture, mixed media and photography. We organize 7 group exhibits per year in a 3000 square foot gallery space on Hudson's Warren Street.